After john opie (14 resultados)

Condición: Good. Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749-1806), Poet and novelist. Stipple engraving measuring approx. 6 x 9 inches. From European Magazine.

Condición: Good. Stipple engraving on wove paper. 40.5 x 30.5 cm (sheet). Good, black tape around some sheet edges, light specks of foxing.

Condición: Good. Line engraving on laid paper. 36 x 21 cm (sheet). Very Good, black tape at sheet corners, short tear at left sheet edge.

Condición: Good. Original engraving. 28.5 x 22 cm (sheet). Very Good, light foxing and soiling in the margins.

Condición: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 17.7 x 17.5 cm. (image); 34 x 24.5 cm. (sheet with mounted image and text). Very Good.

Condición: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 24 x 17 cm. (sheet). Facsimile signature below image. Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges.

Condición: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light foxing in image and in sheet margins. Sheet creases in the margins.

Condición: Good. Steel engraving. 26.5 x 20.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Surface soiling in the margins. Pin hole at lower right sheet corner.

Condición: Good. Steel engraving. 21 x 17 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Green ink? spot son the sitter's face and background.

Condición: Good. Steel engraving. 10 1/2 x 8 in. (sheet). Very Good, some toning and foxing in sheet margins.

Condición: Good. Engraving on watermarked paper, 13.5 x 23 cm. Good with loss at corner, marginal tears, perforation, staining, creasing. "Most correctly copied after the fine medal which was struck in commemoration of coronation" of King Gustav IV and Queen Dorothea of Sweden.

Condición: Good. Engraving, 12.5 x 9 cm. Good with staining, creasing. Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749-1806), Poet and novelist.

Condición: Good. Engraving on wove paper. 30.5 x 21.7 cm. (plate); 35 x 23.7 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Sheet lightly toned, light surface soiling.

Stipple engraving, by C.G. Playter, finished by R. Thew. A very fine copy of one of the greatest images from Boydell's magnum opus, illustrating the works of England's greatest dramatist. "This is Shakespeare on a grand scale, the Shakespeare of titanic emotion, of compelling gesture and vivid gaze. the greatest of the engravings. are by any standard powerful works with an inescapable emotional force behind them. They speak directly to us." (A.E.Santaniello. The Boydell Shakespeare Prints New York, 1979). Opie, a Cornish-born painter of great natural talent, was first brought to wide public attention by William Walcot ('Peter Pindar') and worked for a while in partnership with him. However, by the time the original for the present work was painted he was established in his own right and 'he was largely employed in painting pictures for the important illustrated works of the day. For Boydell's Shakespeare (1786-9) he painted Arthur supplicating Hubert, Juliet on her Bed surrounded by the Capulets, Antigonus sworn to destroy Perdita' (DNB), and this famous scene from Henry the Sixth, part Two, "The Conjuration". In 1786, the printseller John Boydell (1719-1804) 'embarked upon the most important enterprise of his life, viz. the publication, by subscription, of a series of prints illustrative of [the works of] Shakespeare, after pictures painted expressly for the work by English artists. For this purpose he gave commissions to all the most celebrated painters of this country for pictures, and built a gallery in Pall Mall for their exhibition. The execution of this project extended over several years. In 1789 the Shakespeare Gallery contained thirty-four pictures, in 1791 sixty-five, in 1802 one hundred and sixty-two, of which eighty-four were of large size. The total number of works executed was 170, three of which were pieces of sculpture, and the artists employed were thirty-three painters and two sculptors, Thomas Banks and the Hon. Mrs. Damer. It appears from the preface to the catalogue of 1789, and from other recorded statements of Boydell, that he wished to do for English painting what he had done for English engraving, to make it respected by foreigners.' (DNB). Cf. Santaniello, The Boydell Shakespeare Prints; Dictionary of National Biography. …